The richest mother of the world: a success story Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers

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Forbes magazine named heir to the cosmetics empire L'Oréal Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers's richest woman and the mother of the world. Her family owns 33% stake in the cosmetics giant.

Status of Françoise Bettencourt Meyers is estimated at 49.3 billion dollars. The world's richest people list it is on the 14th place. Over the last year the state of Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers has increased by 17%, or $ 7.1 billion.

Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers / gettyimages.co.uk

Earlier, the richest woman in the world Forbes named the mother and her daughter Francoise L'Oréal founder Eugene Shyullera - Liliane Bettencourt. In the list of the richest people in the world she first came in 1987, when Forbes began to publish their ratings.

Françoise Bettencourt Meyers - an only child - was born July 10 in France, Neuilly-sur-Seine.

The girl grew very assiduous child, she preferred to chat with books or spend hours learning the piano at the party. Biographical data on the formation of character is very brief - only known that she received a strict Catholic education. However, it has become the foundation for future scientific work of Françoise.

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Mom Meyers - Liliane Bettencourt - until September 21, 2017, was considered the richest woman in the world.

Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers with Liliane Bettencourt / gettyimages.co.uk

And after her death, nearly all her wealth passed to her daughter Françoise, who received the title of the second richest man in France (after Bernard Arnault).

But it is not only the brand L'Oreal Paris, but also many others - Maybelline, Garnier, Biotherme, Redken, Vichy, Lancome, Helena Rubinstein, perfumes by Ralph Lauren and Parfums Giorgio Armani. All proceeds from them are now coming to the heiress, increasing its already large fortune of 40 billion dollars.

Françoise Bettencourt-Myers mom / gettyimages.co.uk

Françoise - the only granddaughter of the inventor of the paint for the hair and the founder of the cosmetics empire L'Oréal Eugene Shyullera. She entered the board of directors in 1997, and in the Forbes ranking for the first time got a year ago.

Family our heroine has a 33% stake in L'Oreal, worth 107.5 million dollars. And besides, in the list is the villa in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, mansion, located in the Brittany Coast and the island of the Seychelles.

Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers at a fashion show / gettyimages.co.uk

Today, Françoise takes 18th place in the Forbes ranking of billionaires and is among the ten richest women in the world.

In the richest women in the world have a son - Jean-Victor Meyers, who also makes decisions in the management of a huge lorealevskim concern. More about the activities of his son is not known.

Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers and her son / gettyimages.co.uk

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